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cualancanahuatia.

Headword: 
cualancanahuatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to give an order to someone angrily (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cualāncānahuatiā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑlɑːnkɑːnɑwɑtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUALĀNCĀNAHUATIĀ vt to give an order to someone angrily / le ordena con ira (Z) [(2)Zp.91,186]. See CUALĀNQUI, NAHUATIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.

themes: 
Emotions
Politics, Power, Governance